...there's only two weeks to go now and suddenly it doesn't seem very long at all!
I've spent weeks...months...looking forward to the long summer holiday and all the reading and prep I can get done during it, and suddenly I have only 2 weeks left and feel just as disorganised as before!
I have some lever arch files now - I've read varying advice saying I'll need anything between 3 and 25 of them - and I've cut out articles from TES and Child Education magazine that I really must get round to filing somewhere sensible.
I've started revising for the numeracy skills test. Everyone says to get them out of the was asap, and maths is not my strong point - especially the horrible mental maths bit at the start of the test.
On thursday I'm meeting my mentor in our classroom to chat over stuff, look at the long/medium term plans and generally get to grips where resources etc are kept. She's very approachable and easily emailable, so that's a weight off my mind!
Am currently worrying about subject knowledge, planning, pitching the work at the right level, behaviour management and actually having to get up in front of them and act like I know what I'm doing! I think I worry most about the unexpected happening - odd questions, not knowing the normal procedure for things but I hope that in my early days in school observing I will get the hang of the nuts and bolts of school life.
It's scary and exciting, but there's loads of people on TES all saying that are terrified too - or that they were terrified at the start of the course and now they are NQT's and it all worked out okay, so that helps.
Anyway, not long now - I'll post some more once I'm in school. Wish me luck!
Sunday, 19 August 2007
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